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London 2012: British Olympians' holiday heaven and hell

Matthew Pinsent Best holiday? My honeymoon. We went to New Zealand, hired a car and then just made it up as we went along. We stayed in b & bs and swanky hotels that we got a good rate on. We swam with seals and took a small plane over to Milford Sound, which was great fun. We then went to Fiji for 10 days and stayed in a luxury beach villa and did some scuba diving. It was a good contrast. Worst holiday? I lost my passport at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. The British Consulate gave me a piece of paper saying that they hoped with a gold medal in my possession there would be no questions over my identity. Two years later, at the start of our honeymoon, we had a stopover in Australia and at immigration a message went out ''We've got a code 23 at desk 19''. I was taken into a side room where they told me the passport had been reported as stolen. I explained that it had gone missing but that I had since got it back. It took an hour of careful explaining.